Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Xinyao docu

The songs we sang... a documentary on Xin yao music by Eva Tang. A music movement in Singapore.

I always thought of xinyao as a folk music moment and a creative response to culture that is top down (government-led).

Some new additional knowledge i gained from the documentary. Xinyao movement was a result of the displaced generation of students due to the reformed education policies which removed chinese education. This created a whole gen of frustrated students who felt lost and marginalised. The other factor was the rise and popularity of Taiwan folk music movement.

Overall, great documentary by Eva. It is a very moving to watch this and see the people and their passion.

I started to wonder about the Malay and Tamil medium schools and how a generation of them would also be displaced because of the education policy. What is their story.

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About Me

Woon Tien Wei is an artist and curator who works and lives in Singapore. He studied at Goldsmith’s College, London. He completed his Doctoral of Creative Arts at Curtin University (2012) where he researched about artistic strategies in Singapore’s Renaissance.

He was the President of The Artists Village (2001), co-director and founder of The Danger Museum (since 1998), a founding member of a net art collective tsunamii.net (2001),a co-founder of a curatorial collective p-10 (2002-2008) and co-founder of the cultural and social collective Post-Museum (since 2007). His practice can be seen as collaborations between himself and other individuals/organisations/collectives. His exhibitions and projects include Errata: Page 71, Plate 47. Image caption. Change Year: 1950 to Year: 1959; Reported September 2004 by Koh Nguang How (2004-5), Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002), SOFT, InIVA (2002), Post-Ulu, Substation, Singapore (2000), Dream Plan Project, Kwanhoon Gallery Seoul, Korea (1999).